Escaping The Procrastination Jail

In this article, we are going to introduce procrastination and talk about some major concepts you need to learn. After understanding what procrastination is, we are going to explore different solutions you can use to escape the procrastination jail.

What is procrastination?

Procrastination is the art of avoiding necessary tasks and instead shifting the focus to more pleasant and satisfying ones. Procrastination is not entirely due to lack of self-motivation, laziness or incompetence. Scientifically-speaking, procrastination causes actual physical pain. The pain centers of the brain lights up when a procrastinator is on a dreadful task. When someone is confronted with pain, they don’t voluntarily approach but try to avoid it altogether. Procrastination is more of battle between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex controls planning and decision-making while the limbic system is a set of brain structures containing the pleasure center. The limbic system usually wins due to lack of development in the prefrontal cortex thus leading to procrastination.

There are five types of procrastinators:

The Perfectionist:

• This is the most common type of procrastinators. We all have tasks that we like and dislike. We dislike the…